Here’s Your Chance: Ask a Muni Driver!

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We’ve heard lots of stories from the passenger’s seats on Muni, but what about stories from the driver’s seat? If you have burning questions for Muni operators, here is your chance to ask them!

This month we are starting a column called, “Ask a Muni Driver.” We have a kind Muni operator who has volunteered to be your source of all things from the driver’s seat. So send us your questions in the comments section and we’ll get them answered for you in our Ask a Driver column.

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Poll: Take Muni to Giants Games?

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Thwack! Baseball returns to AT&T Park beginning tomorrow (PDF) beginning Monday. The Giants host the Oakland A’s in the first of three exhibition games in the Bay Area this week. Which means it’s time for SFMTA to remind riders to take Muni to Giants games.

Some of you are surely saying, “Yeah, riiiiiiight.” Others of you are all, “EFF YEAH BASEBALL!”

So, Giants fans, we want to know:

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Weekend Photos: Down the Tracks

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Never say we don’t do serious journalism here at Muni Diaries: this week we brought you the discovery of the g-spot (previously thought to be the Muni Boob).

For a brief reprieve, here are some beautiful Muni photos, brought to you by the wonderful photographers in our Muni Flickr pool. We shall return to our regular coverage of Muni discoveries Monday.

Enjoy these photos and your weekend!


Photo by torbakhopper


Photo by Lynn Friedman


Photo by Jeremy Brooks


Photo by FarOutFlora

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Man throws bleach on Muni passengers

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The other day, Kelsey tweeted @munidiaries looking for some answers:

My roommates got bleach thrown on them the other night on the 14. Anyone see anything?

Um, what? To that query, she provided the sordid details below:

She was on her way home with some friends on the 14 on Friday night after the bars closed in the Mission, and back on her way to downtown where we live. I guess there was a man (unsure if it was a transient or not) sitting in the front of the bus, staring oddly at my roommate and her friends. She is not one to just brush it off, and is definitely one to speak her mind. So she did, and called him out, asking why he was staring and told him to stop. He proceeded to throw a Ritz cracker at them (oooh! scary!), and then they lashed back at him some more.

He then held up a water bottle with a clear liquid in it and said, “Do you know what’s in this bottle, girl? Do you know?” or something along those lines, and then after guessing it was rubbing alcohol, he proceeded to splash all three girls with the contents, which they immediately discovered was bleach as soon as it started dying their jackets and leggings/pants that it got on. According to her, just as this happened, the bus came to a stop and the man ran off of the bus. Around 8th and Mission, the driver made everyone get off and had to report the incident, but my roommate and friends went home instead of sticking around.

Ugh.

So, as always, be careful out there. As a lady who’s been in uncomfortable transit situations time and time again: I say Kelsey’s roommate had every right to be left alone on the bus. I’ve gotten angry more times than I could count over similar issues, and I’ve had my long-suffering husband advise repeatedly to hold my tongue and be the bigger person…because it could mean being the bigger, alive person. So, do we all just stay quiet and assume everyone is carrying bleach (or worse)? What do you do when you feel threatened or angry on the bus? Sound off in the comments.

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